LEAP FROM BRIDGE

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1028, 19 July 1930, Page 1

LEAP FROM BRIDGE

ANOTHER GRAFTON TRAGEDY THIS MORNING

ELDERLY MAN’S FATE A fatal leap from Grafton Bridge was made by an elderly man. Mr. Vladimir Eugene Pisarenko, of Kowhai Terrace, Epsom. It wag a busy scene at the bridge with pedestrians and motor traffic passing to and fro when an elderly man was seen to climb to the top of the parapet and throw himself over. The ambulance and police were immediately communicated with and after a short search the body was found in the gully. In morbid curiosity-, hundreds of faces appeared over the parapet of the bridge, while many people clustered along the path leading to the gully when the body was being carried out. Immediately on arrival at the hospital the man was examined and found to be dead. Mr. Pisarenko belonged to a noble Russian family and was a victim of the Revolution. With his family he was forced to leave Russia and succeeded, after many hardships, In finding his way to England. While in London he mar,ried a New Zealand girl and later they came to the Dominion and settled in Auckland. He was an able scholar and an accomplished singer. In his youth Mr. Pisarenko studied singing in Milan, and he was the possessor of an excellent tenor voice. During past few years Mr. Pisarenko had found it difficult to find employment.